UK braced for review of #largescale #solar support

UK solar. The country's large-scale solar support programme is set to be reviewed by the government. Image: Lightsource Renewable Energy. The UK government is poised to announce a review of the support available to the country’s booming large-scale PV sector only weeks after saying it had no further plans to reassess existing rates. UK sources told PV Tech's sister site, Solar Power Portal, that the solar industry was bracing itself for an announcement expected from the Department of Energy and Climate Change later this week that it plans to review the Renewable Obligation mechanism. This follows record breaking first-quarter installations in the UK and new analysis yesterday suggesting that the UK has 120 large-scale projects approved and ready to be developed. While a reduction is not the only outcome of a review, it would tally with the recent Solar Strategy document pu...